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Cryolite, a natural mineral (Na3AlF6) is a trisodium hexafluoroaluminate.

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What is the name of the chemical formula Na3AlF6?

Na3AlF6 is the chemical formula of sodium hexafluoroaluminate (cryolite).


The chemical name for mineral cryolite?

Chemically, it is a double fluoride of sodium and aluminum, Na 3 AlF 6 . Its principal use is as a flux in the smelting of aluminum.


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Which is an ore of alluminum?

For example bauxite and cryolite.


Which are the sources of the element aluminum?

Aluminium is extracted from bauxite or cryolite.


Is cryolite help in increase the melting point?

Cryolite- lit Frozen substance- is one of the two ores of aluminum, a basic metal to our civilization. Both Cryolite and Bauxite are necessary to refine aluminum, plus high quantities of elecric current in special refining vessels- usually horizontal and looking lilke odd pools or tanks. It has nothing to do with Cryogenics- science of materials and processes at extremely Cold Temperatures. at one time Cryolite was thought to be some form of permanently frozen ice-based rock but this is not true.


How is the electrolyte of aluminium oxide and cryolite kept molten?

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Why is cryolite used in the manufacture of aluminium?

It's used as a flux. It melts at a significantly lower temperature than aluminum oxide ores, but they will dissolve in molten cryolite. This means less energy is required to extract the aluminum from the ores than if they had to be heated to their melting temperatures.


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